Word: uptown
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seems scarcely necessary to enter upon a detailed discussion of Dennis King's performance at the Uptown Theatre when the box-office has already given such an accurate account of the show. At the opening night the price of admission for those who insisted on seeing (and hearing) Mr. King immediately, was five dollars but has subsequently been reduced to one dollar for all seats. This expresses the situation exactly--and uniquely; "The Vagabond King" is well worth one dollar but scarcely worth five...
Although the cohorts of Grover Whalen have had little success in solving the riddle of "who killed Arnold Rothstein", Paramount has advanced a neat solution of the whole mystery. "The Street of Chance", now current at the Uptown is based frankly upon the known facts of the Rothstein murder with a mixture of adduced facts and some love interest added thereto in order to make a presentable movie plot...
...anniversary so celebrated was of the establishment of the Neighborhood Playhouse, best known to Manhattanites as the tiny Grand Street Theatre near the Bowery where three and more years ago unusual plays and an annually clever revue (Grand Street Follies) attracted large uptown audiences. The Neighborhood Playhouse in a broader sense represents an idea of Alice and Irene Lewisohn (scionesses of a famed Jewish family), who used to put on plays for children at the Henry Street Settlement. Plays for children grew into plays for grown-ups and in 1915 the Lewisohns built the Grand Street Theatre, opened it with...
Many will remember "Sally" as a musical comedy of about ten years ago and in which Marilyn Miller and Leon Errol were the stars. The current "singing, dancing and talking" First National picture at the Uptown (which by the way, bids fair to become a leading first-run house in Boston) is based on the old play by Guy Bolton and Jerome Kern, the collaborators on many successful musical shows including Fred Stone's latest...
SUBWAY EXPRESS-Murder on the way uptown...